Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] she [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | she could n't understand how , she said oh she said and , and a couple of channels that used to drive her up the wall . |
| 2 | He used to swing her by the leg to fortify her character . |
| 3 | I used to see her in the hairdressers sometimes . |
| 4 | She was supposed to have the power of healing stomach aches , and people used to visit her during the hours of the siesta so that no one would know . |
| 5 | One woman with this problem , whose rather self-absorbed elderly mother used to keep her on the telephone for hours with doom-laden conversations , solved it by telling her that she had developed migraine which was always triggered off by holding a phone to her ear for more than a quarter of an hour at a time ! |
| 6 | And her mother used to take her in a governess cart ( 'sometimes drawn by a donkey' ) to the seaside , when they lived in Essex . |